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Wednesday, September 03, 2014

John Amis Composer Portraits

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A number of John Amis Composer Portraits can be found on Radio NZ. http://www.radionz.co.nz/concert/programmes/appointment  Including Pe...
Sunday, July 20, 2014

John Amis' book now in epub format

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My Music in London 1945 to 2000 is now aviailable in electronic format. A review of the post-war period in classical music mostly in Londo...
Monday, May 26, 2014

Eccleston Square

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A charming obituary from the Eccleston Sq Newsletter .
Monday, May 05, 2014

Book of Remembrance listing John Amis

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  Musicians Church St Sepulchre Holbein 29th April 2014 Book of Remembrance listing John Amis
Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Dame Gillian Weir: A personal appreciation

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A article written Spring 2010, The Organ , No 351, by John Amis in 2010 on his friend Dame Gillian Weir 1965 - the First Night of the Pr...
Thursday, April 03, 2014

John Amis talks about Benjamin Britten at Orpington Recorded Music Society

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Posted on April 23, 2013 by Jon Jacob  ; http://www.thoroughlygood.me/2013/04/23/john-amis-talks-about-benjamin-britten-at-orpington-recor...

Marion Thorpe obituary

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Pianist whose marriages made her a public figure   This piece was written by John Amis. Recently published in the Guardian 2014, http:/...
Wednesday, February 19, 2014

News from Putney Music Society

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Next Meeting, 21 February … A New Yorker abroad .   Andrew Litton , Principal Conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Director o...
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Saturday, August 10, 2013

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Dear Friends I really appreciate all the warm, caring and loving messages I have received in the past week. Many of you have asked for d...
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London, Friday August 2nd Dear Friends. Darling John died peacefully last night at the Chelsea and Westminster – I was with him at the t...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Damnation of Faust

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'Damn braces: Bless relaxes' William Blake Goethe's Faust gripped the imagination of the civilised world. Hector Berlio...
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A Mad Ariadne

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This season is Vladimir Jurowski's thirteenth and last season as Music Director at Glyndebourne. If he is sad to go it is nothing to...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013

A Land Cruise in Turkey

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With my Oldie came an offer of an eight day trip around S.E. Turkey for a derisory sum that included fares, hotel accommodation, guide but...

2 New Britten Biographies

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Both books are entitled: BENJAMIN BRITTEN. Paul Kildea's is sub-titled A Life in the Twentieth Century, published by Allen Lane, 666p, £...
Thursday, April 11, 2013

Lutoslawski Festival

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A Modern Master A cellist sits down and begins to play, not a tune but a pulse, steady, as if going for a walk (orchestra tacet). Sol...

George Benjamin's New Opera

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A Cardboard Turkey? Opera houses feel, quite rightly, that they are in duty bound to mount new works; if they didn't they would n...
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Zeitgeist

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Down-Dating in Art Literally Zeitgeist means 'time-ghost' but it has come to signify the expression of a period of time. Art...

Onegin in Barn

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In the depths of the Hampshire countryside is a wapping great barn with a V-shaped roof, partly brick-walled. It seats about two hundred, ...

West Side Story

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Bernstein in Clink Just beyond Devizes in Wiltshire there was a sign with the word OPERA written large. This targeted the venue of a ...

Youth at the Helm

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A Cracking Good Concert The playing of student and youth orchestras took a vast step forward when advisers and administrators realised ...
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Six weeks in a bank was enough for him to decide to live by and with music. Selling records and writing about them for a high-class gramophone shop, working with London Philharmonic, Symphony and Royal Philharmonic, organising concerts for Myra Hess at the National Gallery and for Michael Tippett whose secretary-dogsbody and friend he was, concert manager for Beecham, music critic for The Scotsman, organiser of the Summer School of Music with William Glock at Bryanston and Dartington for 34 years, broadcaster on radio and TV for 40, during which time he interviewed some 500 of the most famous and interesting musicians, Hindemith to Bernstein, Cage to Swann, Stravinsky to Stockhausen. He has narrated parts in Façade, Peter and the Wolf, Enoch Arden and Babar the Elephant. For his 70th birthday made a CD with friends Leslie Howard, Steve Race, Malcolm Arnold, Donald Swann, Jeffrey Tate and Ian Wallace. His books include an autobiography Amiscellany, an anthology Words about Music and My Life in Music 1945 – 2000, A Photographer at the Aldeburgh Festival (Nigel Luckhurst) and Musicians on Camera (Lelia Goehr).
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